~~~~~~<\/p>\n
One metric ton of so called \u2018depth\u2019<\/p>\n
is easier to fathom than an ounce of real stuff<\/p>\n
whatever that may be.<\/p>\n
You don\u2019t have to look like a spirit of the forest to bring depth.<\/p>\n
There is no harm in it, but it really is not necessary.<\/p>\n
Your words do not have to sound like those of a spirit of the forest.<\/p>\n
There is no harm in it, but it really is not necessary.<\/p>\n
But: look at a real spirit of the forest.<\/p>\n
Do you see the trees?<\/p>\n
Can you hear the streamlet where he says goodbye to the day, every evening?<\/p>\n
Can you feel the black night between the trees<\/p>\n
in which the void comes to visit him with so many pieces of wisdom?<\/p>\n
Can you hear the moss that tells him<\/p>\n
how gentle this world really is?<\/p>\n
A spirit of the forest doesn’t shout to the moon to show how the moon shouts back.<\/p>\n
He shouts when no one<\/em> sees it, not even he himself<\/p>\n and the moon whispers back in the rustling of leaves.<\/p>\n A spirit of the forest spreads himself<\/p>\n to protect all that lives in the forest<\/p>\n against so-called ‘depth’.<\/p>\n